Hard work vs Passionate work.

I often wonder how Sachin Tendulkar can play such great cricket while many others can't do it. For that matter I myself can't play good cricket. I have also observed many youngsters in my neighbourhood, who can play galli cricket or football the whole day without getting tired. Ask me to play for an hour and I will faint ! Ask the same boys to study for few hours or read some novel and see how they start feeling asleep immediately. If I have to read my favourite author for the whole day, I can do it very happily.

The point here is not whether playing any game is hard work or to read for long hours is hard work? The actual question is what is hard work and what is passionate work?

Hard work means doing something very attentively, even if we don't like it. At times we compel ourselves by saying this has to be done and we keep doing it although we don't like it. The disadvantage of this is it affects our personality. Over a period of time we become a very rigid and stubborn person.

On the other hand working passionately means doing something while enjoying the work. For Sachin Tendulkar playing cricket is passion. For somebody to read novels can be a passion.

So whenever we do the things we love we can do it very easily and passionately. One more advantage is our personality remains charming and we never lose the innocence.

Here somebody might shoot a question that there are many works which is to be done but no body likes to do that. To it I will suggest that when we understand the motive and importance of the work then we might be in a position to appreciate its significance. Although it might be difficult but its possible to motivate ourselves for doing the monotonous works with passion.

Most of the times the parents keep insisting to their children that hardwork is the key to success. There is nothing wrong in this statement. But nowdays children come under stress so easily and they feel like bullied if forced to do something. So I feel the same sentence can be framed in a better way like success can be achieved by doing the work at hand very passionately. Instead of forcing the children to work hard under the name of discipline, we can teach them to be passionate about the work. It can be observed all over the world that passion improves performance.

One example of passionate performance is the lyrics of the famous song Jab pyar kiya to darna kiya, from the movie Mughle- Azam which was written and corrected for more than 150 times before it was finalised. Here the lyricist was so passionate about the quality of his work that he kept doing it so many times just to produce the best possible lyrics. This is passion.